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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 901 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  34. 34.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 5
  3. False
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. False
  7. True
  8. Tulsidas
  9. Vishnu Sharma
  10. True
  11. Krishna
  12. Lewis Carroll
  13. the Ramayana
  14. 18
  15. True
  16. Mowgli
  17. the Panchatantra
  18. Alice in Wonderland
  19. Rama
  20. True
  21. False
  22. False
  23. True
  24. False
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. False
  27. Tamil
  28. False
  29. the Mahabharata
  30. Sanskrit
  31. False
  32. True
  33. Wings of Fire
  34. Godan
  35. English
  36. False
  37. Gitanjali
  38. Ved Vyasa
  39. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. Premchand

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